One of my big beliefs about Washington is that we highly overstate the power of individuals and highly underrate seeing Washington as a system, in general, but, in particular, we highly underrate the power of Congress.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything - it can stop the Vietnam War, it can make its will felt, if it can ever get its act together to do anything.
Too many people in Washington care about power institutions, not caring about changing the lives of everyday Americans.
Washington is like playing the Super Bowl, only there are no timeouts, no potty breaks, and the arena is filled with the media. In government, you have to learn to put yourself second in a big way. But I am a business person at heart. I like to be in charge.
My sense was that most of the elected officials in Washington - in their heart of hearts - really believe that the system can't be too bad because it produced them.
The American people think the government in Washington is too big. That it spends too much. And - and that it's totally out of control. They want something done about it.
I think on a whole host of issues Washington tends to be a lagging indicator on public opinion.
I've been a political junkie for a long time. I find the way Washington works is just fascinating to me.
I've never seen Washington as divided as we are right now.
There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across the country.
We stand up and proudly proclaim that Washington is not our caretaker and we reject a state, in Margaret Thatcher's words, a state that takes too much from us to do too much for us.